Marine biofilms constitute a bank of hidden microbial diversity and functional potential

Marine biofilms constitute a bank of hidden microbial diversity and functional potential

Marine biofilms constitute a bank of hidden microbial diversity and functional potential, Published online: 31 January 2019; doi:10.1038/s41467-019-08463-z

Previous surveys of global ocean microbial diversity have focused on planktonic microbes. Here, Zhang et al. use metagenomics to study biofilm-forming marine microbes, increasing the known microbial diversity in the oceans by more than 20% and revealing new biosynthetic gene clusters and CRISPR-Cas systems.

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